We arrived at Drolhetta at about 5. o’clock this afternoon, but at the last post we were
obliged to leave our carriage on account of the quantity of Snow, and take Slays.
“19th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0001-0016. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 165.]